Africa

By: KBC Trade Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano now says that the country expects to have moved fully towards the use of electric buses by the year 2027. Miano said the move is in...

Japan will lease additional land next year to expand a military base in Djibouti, eastern Africa, as a counterweight to what it sees as growing Chinese influence in the region, three Japanese government sources said. China is seeking closer ties with African nations that could...

The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Wednesday to lift a nearly decade-old arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Eritrea, diplomats said, after the country’s rapprochement with Ethiopia and thawing of relations with Djibouti. Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the...

Somalia’s divided political leaders have failed to agree on how to proceed with elections in emergency talks, a government minister has announced, just days before the end of the president’s current term. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed flew back to the capital from the central town...

By:Seattlemedium Community leader Shukri Olow recently announced that she is running for King County Council District Five, which includes all or parts of Kent, SeaTac, Tukwila, Burien, Normandy Park, Des Moines, and Renton. If elected, Shukri would be the first Black woman to win...

By:DWTV Because of its easy access to animals in Ethiopia and Kenya, Somaliland is believed to be the center of the cheetah trade. Traffickers take advantage of its nearly 800-kilometer (500-mile) coastline and its proximity to Yemen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUdoGXGJoA&t=107s  

Somaliland, an unrecognised former British colony in the Horn of Africa, has been described as the African miracle that nobody knows about. It lies in a region facing severe challenges: political instability, the rise of extremism and conflict. But Somaliland has, somehow, managed to...

More than 700 thousand migrants held in Libya are to be evacuated urgently. The question of migrants and their mistreatment dominated the just concluded AU-EU Summit, where this immediate move to save the mostly sub Saharan Africans held in Libyan detention camps was agreed on...

On Saturday, 09 June 2018, at an inaugural ceremony held in the premises of the Main Department for Immigration and Nationality Affairs, the recently launched E-Visa services for tourists and business travelers to and from Ethiopia has been officially put into effect. The E-Visa...

BY CONOR GAFFEY Kenya’s establishment as an independent nation, free from British sovereignty, was dominated by two nascent political dynasties. Jomo Kenyatta, affectionately remembered as the father of the East African nation, spearheaded a long campaign for independence, eventually becomingKenya’s first post-independence president in 1964. In...